Dallas Willard

How to Live as Jesus Lived Dallas Willard, one of today's most brilliant Christian thinkers and author of The Divine Conspiracy (Christianity Today's 1999 Book of the Year), presents a way of living that enables ordinary men and women to enjoy the fruit of the Christian life. He reveals how the key to self-transformation resides in the practice of the spiritual disciplines, and how their practice affirms human life to the fullest. The Spirit of the Disciplines is for everyone who strives to be a disciple of Jesus in thought and action as well as intention.

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The Spirit of the Disciplines - Reissue

A penetrating piece of spiritual theology. Every line in Willard's books is an iceberg, informed by a depth of philosophical, theological, and spiritual substance.

Luke Stamps

Reinier Terblanche

Dallas Willard left me deeply hopeful about the potential of the Church to establish the rule of God's good Kingdom here on earth when abiding in Christ (see Jn. 15) through the spiritual disciplines. 

"The Spirit of the Disciplines" is possibly the most insightful, challenging, and life-altering book I have ever read.

Todd Luallen

Willard starts off the book with a preface or introduction that presents the current state of affairs. He states that Christianity is supposed to have the answer to the ills of man, but in practice most Christians suffer from the same problems that all men suffer from (perpetual sin, divorce, addiction, sexual sin, alcoholism, etc). So why should anyone think that Christ is the answer, if in reality people are not all that different once they "come to Jesus."

Here is the last sentence of the Preface, and also could probably be considered the Thesis of the book: "The Chapters that follow are written to aid you in understanding the absolute necessity of the Spiritual Disciplines for our Faith - and the revolutionary results of practicing these Disciplines intelligently and enthusiastically through a full, grace-filled, Christ-like, life."

The Spirit of the Disciplines - Reissue Understanding How God Changes Lives

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